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qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
94 vs 75
Hardware Fit
100 vs 79
Quality Score
91 vs 73

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b… phi4:14b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b… phi4:14b
Tokens/sec44.811.0
First chunk405 msN/A
TTFT405 ms532 ms
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage16.0 GB13.4 GB
Memory %50%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

phi4:14b

Speed
19/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

phi4:14b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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